Cigar-band.



A. A. CALL 6: W. 8. SMITH CIGAR BAND.

APHJOATIOI TILED $113.17, 19H.

1,017,282. Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

ARTHUR A. CALL AND WILLIAM 8. SMITH, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CIGAR-BAN D.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912. Serial No. 609,159.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known tint we, Airman A. CALL and \Vxuimu S. Sm'rn, both citizens of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, iave invented new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Bands, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cigar bands and specifically to a cigar band so constructed as to provide means to permit its easy removal from the cigar without injury to the wrapper, the invention being fully described and claimed in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanyin drawings, in which,-

igurc 1 is a ers ective view of a cigar having the ban applied thereto. Fi 2 shows a portion 0 a cigar showing t e band in section applied to the ci ar. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the band. Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views of the band showing the manner of foldin the tearing tab of the band relative to the lattcr before it is applied to the cigar in the usual manner.

The object of the invention, broadly, is to provide a cigar band having a tearing tab which is so folded that when the band is put around the cigar in the usual manner the tearing tab will be located between the band and tho ci ar no right angles to the circumferential itucnsion of the band, the tab having a tensile strength greater than that of the band proper to the end that when the end of the tab is pulled back across the band, the latter, having less strength, will mvariablyyicld, thus permitting the band to be severed.

In carrying out the invention, and referring partlcularlv to Figs. 3. t, and 5 of the drawings, a indicates the band proper cut from paper in the usual manner and having a rectangularly disposed tearing tab 1) extending from one side of the band, prcferabl aboutmidwaybct-wcen theccnter thereof ant one end. The folding line of the tab 6 is indicated by the dotted line 0, Fig. 3.

cm od ving the invention upon itselt is then folded on the line 0 back across the inside of the band,as shown in Fig. 5, to the end that when the band is wrapped around the cigar and the overlapping ends thereof are secured together by a suitable adhesive, the folded tearing tab will be, as stated, located transversely of the hand between the latter and the surface of the cigar, as shown in Fig. 1, and attached thereto at one end onlv, the tab being of such length as to leave the doubled thickness thereof extending beyond the side of the band, as indicated at 0!, (Figs. 1, 2, and 5).

By referring to Fig. 2 it is seen that when the and is applied to the cigar in the manner described, the tearing tab will have its free end pinched between the band itself and that portion of the tab contiguous to the folding line c, which indicates the point of attachment -of the tab to the band. Therefore, when the end d of the tab is taken by the fin ers and swun up, (as shown in dotted ines in Fig. 2. to sever the band, the full strength of the two thicknesses of material which constitute the tearing tab is available to effect the severance thereof.- A feature of importance in this structure is also that the band is put on in the usual manner; that is, by applying adhcsive. as indicated for example at c, to one end of the band pro or, and after passing the latter around tic cigar the end of the band may be drawn up as tight-1y as desired before pressing the two ends together, no adhesive being used on the tcnrlng tab.

By the use of bands applied in this manner to cigars, the touring tabs :1 re so located. relative to the medallion of the hand. as to be invisible when the cigars are packed in boxes, and as no adhesive is employed on the tabs there will be no adhesion of one band on one cigar to the next.

\Vl|ntweeluin1,is:- felrlerl upon itself and beneath a single 10 A cigar lmml having ends mla Ilfll in thickness of the band it has a greater tunovelrlnp um} a tearing (uh integral therei sile strength than lhcbaml. will extem ing rmn one side am :4 mew H from one end thereof and of such ll'nglh that when folded upon itself um] heneul'h J J the band, it may extend heyuml the side of Witnesses: the baud opposite the peiuVof its nttach- Wu. H. Chums, ment thereto and of such width that when }I.\RRY \V. BOWEN.

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